I like talking to interesting people who are living INPowered lives. Consistent with the ProgressiCon.US way, they also demonstrate a Spirit of Leading that is service oriented, self-less, and sincere. They come from all walks of life and all generations. They are the doers who simply look for ways to improve their surroundings and impact the lives of all they touch as a result.
The Spirit of Leading podcast will help you find ways to get the most out of your current circumstances as you practice living INPowered in every aspect of your life: at home, at work, and in your community.
070: Francie Ekwerekwu—Nothing worth advocating for comes easy
Francie Ekwerekwu did not know her father was in prison until she was sixteen years old. When she found out, her life changed. She determined to learn all she could about her father and his incarceration. That quest ultimately led her to a life of...
069: Sara Jane Rose and Sally’s List—preparing progressive champions
Women are getting more involved in politics as candidates across the United States. In Oklahoma, Sara Janes Rose has been front and center looking for women to run for office in Oklahoma to champion progressive issues, many of which are women's rights...
068: Do you have itching ears?
Everyone is susceptible to being scammed. Even the smartest people can be fooled. President Lincoln is attributed with saying, "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the...
067: Disruptions provoke renewal
The history of the world is a history of disruptions. We human beings like predictability that gives us a sense of safety. We like to know what's going to happen next so we can prepare for it. Disruptions throw us into a state of panic as chaos swirls...
066: The status of women in Oklahoma—Kitti Asberry, Exec. Director
Kitti Asberry knows advocacy. She credits her father's advice, "Nobody's gonna give you anything, but don't take anything that's not yours," with sustaining her through her experience as a union leader at Oklahoma City's General Motors plant, as a...
065: Disruption, chaos, and creativity
Chaos theory holds that systems tend to entropy toward an eventual state of unpredictability and chaos from which new patterns emerge. However, there is no way to predict what those new patterns will be. The possibilities are endless. The status quo is an...
064: Joy to your world
The news has always been filled with stories of conflict and doom. We get a false impression that danger lurks around every corner, that bad things are common, and that we don't have much hope for the future. In this episode of the Spirit of Leading...
063: Schools of character—State Sen. Dewayne Pemberton
State Senator Dwayne Pemberton has been a champion for young people and quality education for nearly four decades. Along the way, while the principal of Muskogee High School, he led a culture change effort based on the principles of character education to...
062: Ethics, morality, and the law
Who's to say what's right or wrong? Is that the role of religion, the legal justice system, theologians, philosophers? Who? Culture is just the sum total of the behaviors we will allow. What will we allow, and who decides? With lawyers arguing on and on...
061: Emeka Nnaka—control the controllables
Emeka Nnaka loved playing football and having fun with his friends. At 6'5" tall, his friends called him the Enforcer, and he relished being able to take care of them. Then, a spine crushing football injury changed all that in the blink of an eye. In this...
060: The truth about horizons and heavens
Relative truth is what we experience as truth as we observe it. Each of us has a vantage point (perspective). Imagine standing still near a railroad track. A speeding train approaches and starts to sound its horn. At first, the pitch of the horn is low,...
059: Practical idealism
Are idealists merely dreamers, hoping for pie in the sky? Do hardnosed pragmatists always have to win out with their winner-take-all attitude? In this installment of The Spirit of Leading podcast I take the position that idealism has a very practical...